Now might be a good time to pray for peace...

[Arthra]

"When love is realized and the ideal spiritual bonds unite the hearts of men, the whole human race will be uplifted, the world will continually grow more spiritual and radiant and the happiness and tranquillity of mankind be immeasurably increased. Warfare and strife will be uprooted, disagreement and dissension pass away and Universal Peace unite the nations and peoples of the world. All mankind will dwell together as one family, blend as the waves of one sea, shine as stars of one firmament and appear as fruits of the same tree. This is the happiness and felicity of humankind. This is the illumination of man, the glory eternal and life everlasting; this is the divine bestowal."

 

[Robban]

"When love is realized and the ideal spiritual bonds unite the hearts of men, the whole human race will be uplifted, the world will continually grow more spiritual and radiant and the happiness and tranquillity of mankind be immeasurably increased. Warfare and strife will be uprooted, disagreement and dissension pass away and Universal Peace unite the nations and peoples of the world. All mankind will dwell together as one family, blend as the waves of one sea, shine as stars of one firmament and appear as fruits of the same tree. This is the happiness and felicity of humankind. This is the illumination of man, the glory eternal and life everlasting; this is the divine bestowal."

It will happen eventually, but there is much opposition,

As David says,
"I am for peace but when I speak they are for war."

Not much has changed,

 

[Arthra]

Thanks Robban for your post! I think I was probably not very clear about my opening post perhaps on this thread. I was asking for prayers for peace at this time with the possible use of nuclear weapons around the North Korean issue graphically represented by the "doomsday clock" as mentioned in the Wikipedia article:

The Clock represents the hypothetical global catastrophe as "midnight" and The Bulletin's opinion on how close the world is to a global catastrophe as a number of "minutes" to midnight. Its original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. It has been set backward and forward 22 times since then, the smallest-ever number of minutes to midnight being two (in 1953) and the largest seventeen (in 1991). As of January 2017, the Clock is set at two and a half minutes to midnight, due to a "rise of 'strident nationalism' worldwide, United States President Donald Trump's comments over North Korea, Russia, and nuclear weapons."[4][5] This setting is the Clock's second-closest approach to midnight since its introduction.

Also see:

http://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/Final 2017 Clock Statement.pdf

For me it's also personal .. I had an uncle that worked with Oppenheimer the developer among others of the Atomic bomb and I hope and pray that this doesn't become an "H" for a horrible hydrogen holocaust.

 

[brinny]

Praying.

 

[Arthra]

The following site is a kind of "Doomsday Dashboard":

Doomsday Dashboard

I know it's a negative subject but with all the hurricanes, earthquakes going on it just seems we should be doing more... about avoiding nuclear war.